The War On War
Author Haruki Murakami once said “Listen up- there’s no war to end all wars.” For as long as people have lived on earth there has been war, whether it is over food, land, or supplies. Every human has greed and eventually it will come out. Ever since the invention of chemical weapons and automatic weapons, war and terror has become much more of a evident problem with World War Two causing around 60 million deaths. In the book Interface Text by Joan Green she asks the question “Freedom From War: Dream or Possibility?” Although some people say that freedom from war is a possibility, it is far more clear that war will always prevail. Freedom from war is only a dream because the effects of war do not only apply to those …show more content…
It is amazing what a man can do to another man, war is so evil and inescapable that it compels people to do unspeakable things to one and other. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, Owen writes “children ardent for some desperate glory.”(93). Writing this Owen is saying that is does not matter how these men achieve it, but as long as they get it. War is only a dream for these men who would throw poison gas at one and another just to achieve what they want. Not only in World War One can this be found but also in World War Two, in the speech given by Elie Wiesel called The Kingdom of Night he talks about his experience being a jewish boy in World War Two. Wiesel says “I remember he asked his father: ‘ can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be commited?’ “(100). Freedom from war was only a dream for people who believed in Judaism in the 1940’s. No one ever thought someone would be able to do the things Hitler and the Nazis did. Through the way armies have acted over the past World Wars it is quite evident that freedom from war is only a dream. It does not matter who or what you are, you can be affected by war and if so those effects are there for …show more content…
In Peshawar, Pakistan where the report One Family’s Experience of War by Helene Caux takes place, hundreds of people innocent people are killed and injured by the war. In the report Coux describes her experience at the hospital “ childrens faces that had lost their pigmentation, a baby’s burned feet. I heard crying of women and children in pain.”(94). Just this one sentence shows how the wars in the Middle East are affecting innocent people. All these kids know is war and pain, and for most it is all they will ever know. Most of those kids will never get any sort of freedom especially not from war. Caux also talked with some of the families who have been affected by these wars, one women says “my three year old daughter Salma*; my mother-in-law Johara*; my brother-in-law Mohamat*; were dead.”(95). This illustrates the horror and rage that comes with war. That woman will never see peace and the worst part is that she will never see the end of the war. Even if one day they stop fighting she will never get freedom for she has lost too much. In the end you do not need to be directly in contact with war to be affected, thousands, if not millions of people are affected without even being
Author Haruki Murakami once said “Listen up- there’s no war to end all wars.” For as long as people have lived on earth there has been war, whether it is over food, land, or supplies. Every human has greed and eventually it will come out. Ever since the invention of chemical weapons and automatic weapons, war and terror has become much more of a evident problem with World War Two causing around 60 million deaths. In the book Interface Text by Joan Green she asks the question “Freedom From War: Dream or Possibility?” Although some people say that freedom from war is a possibility, it is far more clear that war will always prevail. Freedom from war is only a dream because the effects of war do not only apply to those …show more content…
It is amazing what a man can do to another man, war is so evil and inescapable that it compels people to do unspeakable things to one and other. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, Owen writes “children ardent for some desperate glory.”(93). Writing this Owen is saying that is does not matter how these men achieve it, but as long as they get it. War is only a dream for these men who would throw poison gas at one and another just to achieve what they want. Not only in World War One can this be found but also in World War Two, in the speech given by Elie Wiesel called The Kingdom of Night he talks about his experience being a jewish boy in World War Two. Wiesel says “I remember he asked his father: ‘ can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be commited?’ “(100). Freedom from war was only a dream for people who believed in Judaism in the 1940’s. No one ever thought someone would be able to do the things Hitler and the Nazis did. Through the way armies have acted over the past World Wars it is quite evident that freedom from war is only a dream. It does not matter who or what you are, you can be affected by war and if so those effects are there for …show more content…
In Peshawar, Pakistan where the report One Family’s Experience of War by Helene Caux takes place, hundreds of people innocent people are killed and injured by the war. In the report Coux describes her experience at the hospital “ childrens faces that had lost their pigmentation, a baby’s burned feet. I heard crying of women and children in pain.”(94). Just this one sentence shows how the wars in the Middle East are affecting innocent people. All these kids know is war and pain, and for most it is all they will ever know. Most of those kids will never get any sort of freedom especially not from war. Caux also talked with some of the families who have been affected by these wars, one women says “my three year old daughter Salma*; my mother-in-law Johara*; my brother-in-law Mohamat*; were dead.”(95). This illustrates the horror and rage that comes with war. That woman will never see peace and the worst part is that she will never see the end of the war. Even if one day they stop fighting she will never get freedom for she has lost too much. In the end you do not need to be directly in contact with war to be affected, thousands, if not millions of people are affected without even being